{"product_id":"the-pale-companion-9781472133588","title":"The Pale Companion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Highly entertaining'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMidsummer 1601.\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain''s Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare''s \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night''s Dream.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt should be a pleasant, well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble marriage, but when the actors arrive at their destination, Instede House, they enter a tense atmosphere. Lord Elcombe is pushing his older son into a marriage that the son seems set against, while in the nearby woods a wild man called Robin talks in riddles of long-hidden family secrets. In another quarter of the great estate lodges a travelling band of fire-and-brimstone morality players called the Paradise Brothers. The first death, when it occurs, looks like suicide, but Nick isn''t so sure . . . Then a second murder happens right under his nose . . . and turns the \u003ci\u003eDream\u003c\/i\u003e into a nightmare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe third Shakespearea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851689738583,"sku":"9781472133588","price":7.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472133588.jpg?v=1710642250","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-pale-companion-9781472133588","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}